On 11 Oct 2010, at 10:53, andrea c wrote: > Hello, > > I use growl for my pomodoro software. The problem is that when I use > pomodoro with ms office (word in particular) the pomodoro does not > show up in the word bar. > Would be possible allow growl to access even ms office applications? > > Thank > A. >
Hi, I suspect you are running into a separate issue here. The menu bar (at the top of your screen) is separated into two halves: The Application menus on the left, are the menus for whatever application you currently have focused (are using right now). The menu items (the icons on the right, including your pomodoro one i’m guessing), are used by various applications and services to give you quick access to stuff. These are not related to whatever the currently focused application is in any way (unless by design), and will always be there whatever the application, UNLESS: If you have a large number of menu items, and your currently focused application has many wide menus, then the application menus will take priority, and the leftmost menu items will be obscured. Unfortunately, I don’t know of a better way of showing them, other than to quickly focus on an application like finder, which has fewer/shorter menus. You can sometimes hold down ctrl and drag the menu items left and right to re-order them, but i think that is almost exclusively the apple-provided ones in leopard and beyond. the other option would be to remove any items you don’t need; either find their checkbox in the application’s preferences, or system preferences, or ctrl-drag them off of the menu bar. (for instance, the growl menu item can be enabled/disabled in System Preferences->Growl->General->Show Growl icon in the menu bar.) An alternative approach, assuming you are using this one: http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/, would be to learn and use the various keyboard shortcuts to do whatever it is you are after, without having to interact with the menu at all! A lot of the above is guesswork, so do say if it isn’t relevant, but hopefully you will find something useful in there to help you. :) Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
